Microsoft has forged a strategic partnership with China United Telecommunications (China Unicom) for co-operation in CDMA (code division multiple access) wireless data services.
A memorandum of strategic partnership was signed in Beijing by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and China Unicom president Wang Jianzhou yesterday, making the United States software giant the latest foreign firm to secure a place in the world's largest mobile phone market.
Under the agreement, the firms will develop value-added services for the advanced CDMA 1X platform of China's No 2 mobile carrier.
The platform will use Microsoft's .Net technology, its framework for Web services and component software and programming language environment.
Microsoft has committed to assisting China Unicom's mobile content and application providers to jointly develop more than 100 types of applications and services based on a CDMA 1x wireless data platform.
The companies refused to reveal financial details of their pact.
